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| author | Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-07-20 08:28:43 +0530 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-07-21 11:38:29 +1000 |
| commit | 2476c09f391eddb546a73fef9f6ab86886a9f2b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0905926503fbb2133988a2ef97eec83f37884e44 /arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | |
| parent | 4c576229ac371bc9d96f2b365ebcd296aa266cec (diff) | |
powerpc/signal: Add helper function to fetch quad word aligned pointer
This patch adds one helper function 'sigcontext_vmx_regs' which computes
quad word aligned pointer for 'vmx_reserve' array element in sigcontext
structure making the code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Reword comment and fix build for CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c index c7c24d2e2bdb..20756dfb9f34 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c @@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ static const char fmt64[] = KERN_INFO \ "%s[%d]: bad frame in %s: %016lx nip %016lx lr %016lx\n"; /* + * This computes a quad word aligned pointer inside the vmx_reserve array + * element. For historical reasons sigcontext might not be quad word aligned, + * but the location we write the VMX regs to must be. See the comment in + * sigcontext for more detail. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC +static elf_vrreg_t __user *sigcontext_vmx_regs(struct sigcontext __user *sc) +{ + return (elf_vrreg_t __user *) (((unsigned long)sc->vmx_reserve + 15) & ~0xful); +} +#endif + +/* * Set up the sigcontext for the signal frame. */ @@ -90,7 +103,7 @@ static long setup_sigcontext(struct sigcontext __user *sc, struct pt_regs *regs, * v_regs pointer or not */ #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC - elf_vrreg_t __user *v_regs = (elf_vrreg_t __user *)(((unsigned long)sc->vmx_reserve + 15) & ~0xful); + elf_vrreg_t __user *v_regs = sigcontext_vmx_regs(sc); #endif unsigned long msr = regs->msr; long err = 0; @@ -181,10 +194,8 @@ static long setup_tm_sigcontexts(struct sigcontext __user *sc, * v_regs pointer or not. */ #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC - elf_vrreg_t __user *v_regs = (elf_vrreg_t __user *) - (((unsigned long)sc->vmx_reserve + 15) & ~0xful); - elf_vrreg_t __user *tm_v_regs = (elf_vrreg_t __user *) - (((unsigned long)tm_sc->vmx_reserve + 15) & ~0xful); + elf_vrreg_t __user *v_regs = sigcontext_vmx_regs(sc); + elf_vrreg_t __user *tm_v_regs = sigcontext_vmx_regs(tm_sc); #endif unsigned long msr = regs->msr; long err = 0; |